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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

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Barry Holstun Lopez

Barry Holstun Lopez

Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American essayist, poet, fiction writer and prose stylist whose work is best known for its ecological concerns.

Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York and raised in Southern California. He began attending the University of Notre Dame in 1966 and earned a graduate degree there in 1968. He went on to further graduate study at the University of Oregon (1969-1970). Lopez has been described as “the nation’s premier nature writer” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Frequently compared with Henry David Thoreau, Lopez’s non-fiction writing closely dissects the relationship between human culture and physical landscape, while his fiction addresses issues of intimacy, ethics and identity. An archive of Lopez' manuscripts and other works has been established at Texas Tech University. The writer has also served as a liaison between the University and the Comanche Nation.

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